There's no magic here. It's not a trick. It's just that our eyes are looking at it wrong.

It's a crazy optical illusion created by Kokichi Sugihara at Meiji University in Japan, and it's so trippy that it's making our brains short-circuit.

Sugihara is a mathematician, apparently one intent on making maths more difficult for us to understand.

The video was made by the Instagram account@physicsfun, but while it does involve physics, none of this is fun. Instead it's a mind-melting experience that makes us feel like we're in a David Lynchian dream.

Now if you'll excuse us, we're going to go curl up into a ball for the rest of the day.